Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Venice, the older man's longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.
| ISBN: | 9780141189567 |
| Publication date: | 2nd October 2008 |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 428 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Narrative theme: Love and relationships Fiction in translation |